The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 27, 2021

They found 144 studies involving nearly 80,000 students, from elementary school through university. If you want your students to be motivated at school, parents are important but they’re not enough,” said Julien Bureau, associate professor at Université Laval in Quebec and lead author of the study. Two conclusions jumped out.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Given students’ interest in technology, educational technology tools are a promising way to motivate them to learn. Learning games that have compelling, obvious goals are significantly more popular among elementary school children than those that don’t. Psychological Inquiry,11(4), 227–268. Boggiano, A. Habgood, M.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

For many early adolescents — and not a few of their teachers — middle school isn’t about choice and agency, “it’s about surviving,” said Melissa Wantz, a former educator from California, with more than 20 years’ experience. So, what does this evolving understanding of early adolescence say about how middle schools should be designed?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

A group of fifth grade boys trailed into the conference room in the front office of Johnsburg Elementary School and sat at the table, their feet dangling from the chairs. “It In elementary schools across the country, an incident as common as a playground fracas over a football could result in kids being suspended.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Now a trio of economists say they’ve been able to calculate some of these psychological costs. The psychological downsides of overscheduling hit before students’ cognitive skills were maximized. She wonders what would happen if little kids were less scheduled in elementary school.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2022

A May 2022 study of children with disabilities found that Black and white children who posted the same low test scores were equally likely to be removed from a general education classroom and placed in a separate special ed classroom. Department of Education. Photo by Ben Hasty/MediaNews Group/Reading Eagle via Getty Images).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2021

Researchers at Penn State analyzed 10,000 students and found that kindergarteners in low-income families and Black kindergarteners of all incomes had a higher propensity to be heavy users of technology by the end of elementary school. Our study provides some indication of the groups.”. Book reading is so important for kids,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

When people learn that I have a doctorate in educational psychology and quantitative methods, they often assume that I love math. Despite high math scores in earlier grades and a passion for the subject, I was placed into lower-level math courses in middle school. And the truth is, I do now, although that wasn’t always the case.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

This year, I began another complicated questwith an institutional behemoth: the New York City Department of Education. That’s what led me to thinking through school options last year, with the help of a lovely school psychologist at our neighborhood elementary school in Brooklyn. Credit: Kavitha Rajagopalan.

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ED Surge

MAY 7, 2024

Viridiana Martinez’s family immigrated twice when she was in elementary school — once, from Mexico to Canada, and a second time to the United States. During those transitions, Martinez was both challenged and uplifted, often by kind teachers and mentors whom she met at school. In this installment, we’re featuring Martinez.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 3, 2020

Nick Schiner (Infant and Pre-K Parent): I think it is important to level set that, just because I am an educator, I don’t feel like I have all (or any!) It never feels like enough and I want other parents and educators to know that feeling is normal and means we’re doing the best we can! of the answers.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Audrianna Lesieur, age 11, smiles after demonstrating the strength of “Confidence” with encouragement from classmate William Maestas as her teacher Val Seamons moves on to assist Billy Sabo at Lake Canyon Elementary School. They’re among the 10 “talent themes,” or strengths, used to underpin learning in the school district here.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2024

A growing chorus of education researchers, pundits and “science of reading” advocates are calling for young children to be taught more about the world around them. The study took place in an unnamed, large urban school district in North Carolina where most of the students are Black and Hispanic and 40 percent are from low-income families.

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TCI

MARCH 25, 2025

Elementary education has traditionally focused on English Language Arts (ELA) and mathematics, often at the expense of social studies and science. To improve student outcomes, schools must take a more integrated approach to literacy instruction.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2019

“Grit,” a best-selling book by University of Pennsylvania professor Angela Duckworth, may have swept parenting and education pop culture but research scholars say they are finding mounting evidence that it doesn’t add up. Higher Education. Sign up for Jill Barshay's Proof Points newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 26, 2015

Each year, students at Owsley County Schools miss nearly a month of school because of snow and ice. The time away from class takes a real toll on student learning, says Jason Hall, an elementary school teacher in the rural Kentucky district. ” Not anymore, though.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 14, 2015

Carol Dweck, a professor of psychology at Stanford University, showed that students become more motivated when they learn the brain is a muscle, which can get stronger, and that learning can lead to physical changes in the brain’s structure. It will also require determination and perseverance.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2024

They now need nine months of additional school to catch up, according to NWEA’s analysis, released in July 2024. Where are we going to find an additional year to make up for these kiddos before they leave the education system?” All three analyses were produced by for-profit companies that sell assessments to schools.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

School-age children should get an hour or more of moderate-to-vigorous physical activity daily, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Kyle Bragg, an elementary school PE instructor in Scottsdale, Arizona, said he’s yet to find an acceptable alternative to a jump rope; nothing rotates at the same speed.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

He never received extra help or special education services from his Houston-area school district. When Odegard was the first student in his school to solve a complex murder mystery puzzle, one of them said he must have guessed. She held it together all day at school and then would explode.” to get things done,” he said.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Sign up for our Early Education newsletter. Higher Education. Young kids do notice skin tone, they do notice race groups,” said Christia Spears Brown, a professor and associate chair of development and social psychology at the University of Kentucky, who has researched and written about identity development. “We Weekly Update.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2023

This story also appeared in USA Today Since the school year began, Vega-Tatum has given more than 356 hours of his time to Yolo Farm to Fork , a nonprofit that supports school gardens and farm-based education. When he reaches the 450-hour mark, he’ll get a $3,000 award.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

Its tutors are in India, but many of its clients are American families with elementary school children. It’s not all the teacher’s responsibility to change student behavior,” said Dorottya Demszky, an assistant professor in education data science at Stanford University and lead author of the study. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

About five years ago, as I walked my then-elementary school kids to school, I was bumped and run into by upper-school students glued to their phones — their consciousness taken hostage, essentially. Related: Proof Points: 10,000 student study points to kindergarteners who may become heavy screen users. Jim Winston Jr. ,

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

It may seem frivolous to spend so much money on a school dedicated to a grade level that students aren’t even required to attend in most states , but research shows kindergarten can be one of the most important years in a child’s educational career. A state law mandated full-day kindergarten starting in the 2017-18 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2020

For a moment, I picture myself in an alternate universe and think, today is the day the chamber choir is performing as part of the Mayor’s address — or the ukulele donation is getting delivered to the elementary school , or the guest artist-in-residence is arriving at the middle school rock band classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2021

One widely used program called CHAMPS was recently tested in a study involving more than 100 teachers and almost 1,500 middle-school students in a randomized controlled trial — the kind of gold-standard experiment that is common in medicine but not in education. The experiment took place in two St.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2020

Ithzel Rubio, a high school student, says that if it weren’t for her summer mentor, “I wouldn’t have anyone else to turn to right now.” Up to a third of high school graduates who plan to pursue higher education never do, the U.S. Department of Education says. Credit: Ithzel Rubio. Credit: Julieta Garcia.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2017

Growth mindset theory, the idea that intelligence is malleable and can grow, has taken the education world by storm in the past decade as a way of motivating students academically. Years later, studying psychology, she wondered if mindset interventions would also be effective in her field. Educators are hungry for fixes.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2021

While enrollment in higher education overall fell 2.5 Adrian Huerta, assistant professor of education, University of Southern California. “In It’s a national crisis,” said Luis Ponjuan, an associate professor of higher education administration at Texas A&M University. Credit: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report.

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Digital Promise

MAY 8, 2019

While some of these findings have influenced the design and development of educational materials, few have been directly translated to practitioners and students. Haley Vlach and colleagues found that distributed lessons improved elementary school children’s ability to generalize their learning about food chains to new biomes.

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ED Surge

JULY 5, 2023

More than a decade after earning his bachelor’s degree in psychology, Davenport is a student once again, pursuing his license to become a high school special education teacher. I still didn't really know what I wanted to do, but psychology definitely grabbed my attention. This month, we are featuring Davenport.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 17, 2024

“I have often observed, to my regret, that a widespread prejudice exists with regard to the educability of intelligence,” Binet wrote in 1909. In recent decades, more states and school districts have shifted in the direction of downplaying the role of intelligence testing in special education evaluations.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Either way, the reality is that competitiveness starts early and competition shows up in many ways in schools. As an elementary school student, I remember sitting “criss cross applesauce” among my peers during the end-of-the-quarter awards ceremonies, hoping my name would be called. That was too hard to bear.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2019

NEW ORLEANS — Clutching a small purse, six-year-old Leona Tate walked into McDonogh 19 Elementary School here and helped to desegregate the South. Her plan is to open an educational center on desegregation within her former school. Board of Education, which declared school segregation unconstitutional.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 11, 2017

For instance, one 2013 experiment found that telling elementary school children “ girls do better than boys ” in school made boys – but not girls – perform worse on a series of academic tests. This female advantage started in elementary school and continued until college. Teachers’ stereotypes also matter.

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ED Surge

MAY 12, 2022

But whether they live in Illinois, New Hampshire, Missouri or elsewhere, they each concede that despite their education and certifications, their teacher salary alone is not enough to afford them the lifestyle they had hoped to one day attain. Her workload—and the mental, psychological and financial burden they carried—had become untenable.

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